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Living in Het Witte Lam

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Groningen.

35 residents, 16 homes, Data: CBS, Politie, Kiesraad, Kadaster

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Location

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01 · Prices & homes

Prices & homes

02 · Safety

Too few residents for a rate per resident: these are counts.

Het Witte Lam has too few residents for a reliable rate per 1,000 residents (under 200), so counts are shown instead of a comparison. In 2025, 9 crimes were registered, against 9 in 2021. Crimes are counted where they happen, not where the offender lives.

Key figures
  • Registered crimes, 2025
    9
    about the same as 9 in 2021
  • Home burglary
    0
    2023–2025

Registered crime per year

9 crimes were registered in Het Witte Lam in 2025 (9 in 2021).

Registered crimes, 2025
9
  • same as 9 in 2021
Explanation

Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200) — registered crime, not all crime — CBS/Politie 47018NED.

Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025

Crime by category

The largest category in Het Witte Lam is 'Traffic': 4 in 2025.

  • Traffic4
  • Fraud and scams2
  • Other and withheld2
  • Violence and threats1
  • Theft and burglary0
  • Vandalism and public order0
  • Environmental0
Explanation

Too few residents for a reliable per-1,000 figure (threshold 200). Four categories are structurally withheld at buurt level (sex offences, child pornography, child prostitution, other integrity offences); the gap with the published total is shown under 'other'.

Source: CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025

Traffic accidents by outcome

In 2024, police in Het Witte Lam registered 5 traffic accidents, of which 0 with injury and none fatal.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
FatalInjuryMaterial damage only
Explanation

Registered accidents (BRON, Rijkswaterstaat); material-damage-only accidents have not been systematically registered since roughly 2010 and are not comparable between areas. This area shows only accidents with an exactly known location (roughly 80-85% of all registered accidents); the rest is known only at street, intersection or gemeente level. The comparison with the gemeente therefore also uses only the gemeente's exactly-located accidents, which is why that figure is lower than on the gemeente's own page.

Source: BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024

03 · Living environment

Green space is below the Groningen average.

Built-up land is the largest land use in Het Witte Lam, covering 59% of the area, against 21% in Groningen.

Key figures
  • Green (parks, sport, nature)
    0%
    14 percentage points lower than Groningen (14%)
  • Built-up, share of the area
    59%
    38 percentage points higher than Groningen (21%)
  • Agriculture, share of the area
    18%
    34 percentage points lower than Groningen (52%)
  • Traffic, share of the area
    24%
    20 percentage points higher than Groningen (4%)

Land use

0% of the area is green (parks, sport, nature), against 14% in the municipality of Groningen.

  • Traffic23.5%
  • Built-up58.8%
  • Agriculture17.6%
Explanation

Every share is calculated as a percentage of the TOTAL area (land and water together, peiljaar 2022); water is therefore one of the slices itself, not a separate whole. Green is the sum of recreational terrain (parks, sport fields, allotments, day recreation) and natural terrain (forest, open natural terrain) — agricultural land is not counted as green here.

Source: CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022

Distance to amenities

A daycare lies here at an average road distance of 900 m.

DistanceValue
Large supermarket2,000 m–
GP practice1,100 m–
Primary school2,600 m–
Daycare900 m–
Large supermarkets–0
GP practices–0.2
Daycares–1.6
Explanation

Average road distance from every address in this buurt to the nearest amenity, and the average count within 1 km — a buurt average, not a distance from one address.

Source: CBS proximity statistics 2025

04 · Residents

The population is shrinking, while it grows in Groningen.

Het Witte Lam has 35 inhabitants (2026), or 212 per km² (84% lower than in Groningen). In the 2025 House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) election, turnout in the municipality of Groningen was 81%, 3 percentage points above the national 78%. Of the parties that are largest nationally, D66 had the highest share there: 24% of the vote, against 17% nationally. Election results exist only per municipality, so these are the municipality's figures.

Key figures
  • Population growth since 2021
    -22%
    lower than Groningen (+5%)
  • Turnout, municipality of Groningen
    81%
    3 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (78%)
  • More figures
  • Growth of the dwelling stock
    +0%
    lower than Groningen (+5%)
  • Aged 25 to 45
    29%
    2 percentage points lower than Groningen (31%)
  • Never married
    57%
    10 percentage points lower than Groningen (67%)
  • Dutch origin
    71%
    1 percentage point higher than Groningen (70%)
  • D66, share of the vote
    24%
    7 percentage points higher than the Netherlands (17%)

Population per year

The population shrank 22% between 2021 and 2026, to 35.

Residents, 2026
35
  • -22% since 2021
  • Groningen +5%

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Density

With 212 residents per km², this buurt is 84% less densely populated than the municipality of Groningen.

Residents per km²212
Dwellings per km²94.1

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Births and deaths per 1,000 residents

In 2025, almost no children were born; almost no one died.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
BirthsDeaths

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Residents by age group

29% of residents are between 25 and 45.

  • 15 to 255
  • 25 to 4510
  • 45 to 6510
  • 65 to 8010

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Marital status

57% of residents are never married.

  • Never married20
  • Married15

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Residents by country of origin

71% of residents have Dutch origin.

  • Netherlands25
  • Europe (excluding the Netherlands)5
  • Outside Europe5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

Parliamentary election

These figures are for the whole municipality of Groningen; there is no result per buurt or wijk. At the general election (Tweede Kamer) of 29 October 2025, 81% of eligible voters in Groningen voted. The largest party was D66 with 24% of the valid votes.

Municipality of GroningenThe Netherlands
D66
24.4%
16.9%
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)
8.4%
16.7%
VVD
10.3%
14.2%
GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA)
24%
12.8%
CDA
8.6%
11.8%
JA21
3.5%
5.9%
Forum voor Democratie
3%
4.5%
BBB
1.2%
2.6%
Other
16.6%
14.4%
Explanation

Official election result (Kiesraad), top 8 parties by national vote count plus 'Other'; share of valid votes. A voter may vote at any polling station in their own gemeente; there is therefore no reliable buurt- or wijk-level result. This figure is the whole gemeente's own result.

Source: Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025

05 · More figures

More figures

59% of cars run on something other than petrol (diesel, LPG or electricity, hybrids included), 30 percentage points more than in Groningen (29%).

Key figures
  • Government, education and care, share of businesses
    9%
    11 percentage points lower than Groningen (20%)
  • Culture, recreation and other services, share of businesses
    4%
    11 percentage points lower than Groningen (15%)
  • Trade and hospitality, share of businesses
    26%
    10 percentage points higher than Groningen (16%)
  • Cars not on petrol (2025)
    59%
    30 percentage points higher than Groningen (29%)
  • Change in cars not on petrol since 2021
    +3 pp
    lower than Groningen (+5 pp)
  • Residential, share of addresses
    13%
    76 percentage points lower than Groningen (89%)
  • Industrial, share of addresses
    65%
    63 percentage points higher than Groningen (2%)
  • Office, share of addresses
    25%
    24 percentage points higher than Groningen (1%)

Business establishments by sector

Handel en horeca is the largest sector, with 30 establishments.

Landbouw, bosbouw en visserij0
Nijverheid en energie20
Handel en horeca30
Vervoer, informatie en communicatie15
Financiële diensten, onroerend goed5
Zakelijke dienstverlening30
Overheid, onderwijs en zorg10
Cultuur, recreatie, overige diensten5

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Passenger cars by fuel type

59% of passenger cars do not run on petrol (diesel, LPG, electric etc.), against 29% in the municipality of Groningen (2025).

  • Petrol41.2%
  • Other fuel (diesel, LPG, electric etc.)58.8%
Explanation

CBS splits passenger cars into 'petrol' and 'other fuel' only. That second category bundles diesel, LPG, electric (including hybrid), hydrogen, alcohol, LNG and CNG together — CBS publishes no separate electric-car count per buurt, wijk or gemeente, so this is not the same as an 'electric share'.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Share on other fuel per year

The share of passenger cars not running on petrol went from 56% to 59% between 2021 and 2025.

Share on other fuel, 2025
59%30 percentage points above Groningen (29%)
  • +3 pp since 2021
  • Groningen +5 pp
Explanation

See the 'Passenger cars by fuel type' card for what 'other fuel' covers — this is not the share of electric cars.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Vehicles by kind

In 2025, 85 passenger cars and 20 motorcycles were registered here.

Passenger cars85
Motorcycles20
Explanation

At this level CBS publishes only passenger cars and motorcycles, no vans or trucks.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2025

Addresses by building use

13% of addresses are residential; the largest other use is industrial (65%).

  • Residential13%
  • Office25.2%
  • Assembly0.8%
  • Industrial65%
  • Other9.8%
Explanation

Based on 123 verblijfsobjecten in use. An object with several registered uses (e.g. a flat above a shop) is counted under each of them, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.

Source: Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01

Biggest difference from the Netherlands

212 residents per km²: 61% less densely populated than the Dutch average.

This areaThe Netherlands
  • Residents per km²212
Explanation

The 5 characteristics that differ most from the national average, ranked by log ratio (so a halving and a doubling count as equally different); the shown percentage is the ordinary difference against the Netherlands.

Source: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026

06 · Nearby areas

Other neighbourhoods in Groningen

Other neighbourhoods in Groningen
Van Starkenborgh850€546,00011
Koningslaagte75€541,000–
De Hunze2,375€414,00023
Noorderhoogebrug275€358,00062
Beijum-West5,875€256,00031

Sources: CBS Kerncijfers wijken en buurten (KWB) 2026, Kadaster BAG (bag-light.gpkg) 2026-09-01, CBS proximity statistics 2025, CBS/Politie geregistreerde misdrijven (47018NED) 2025, BRON — Bestand geRegistreerde Ongevallen Nederland (Rijkswaterstaat) 2024, Kiesraad — Verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer (data.overheid.nl) TK2025, CBS Bodemgebruik (86211NED) 2022. Figures describe the whole neighbourhood.

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